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Green Bay - When you think of Green Bay Packers general manager Ted Thompson, you don't think of a swashbuckler pirating someone's freight.

Especially when it belongs to Blackbeard himself, Bill Belichick.

But if you add up the numbers allotted to each pick in the NFL draft on a value chart most teams use, Thompson bilked everything but Belichick's eye patch in a swap of draft picks Friday evening.

Thompson, holding a pick at the end of the third round (No. 90 overall), swapped picks with the New England Patriots coach, who had No. 62.

The cost of moving 38 spots in the draft: a fourth-round pick (No. 163).

"Well, we thought it was pretty good value and felt like we had a guy like we definitely had targeted that we thought was worthy of pulling that trade off," Thompson said modestly. "It just worked out that way. It was a good trade for us."

Was it ever.

It's not just that Thompson was able to draft 5-11 ½ -inch, 193-pound cornerback Casey Hayward with the pick he acquired, it's that he barely gave away anything to do it.

Here's how a trade value chart, obtained this week from a team and commonly used in this draft, scored the trade:

Pick No. 62 (New England's) is worth 284 points.

Pick No. 90 (Green Bay's) is worth 140 points.

Pick No. 163 (Green Bay's) is worth 29.8 points.

All totaled, Thompson traded 169.8 points for 284 points, a net gain of 114.2 points, a total so one-sided it's almost as though Belichick, the Patriots mastermind, lost his mind for a few seconds. The Patriots, who only had two second-rounders left in the entire draft, thought they could get equal value in the third where Green Bay was drafting.

"Some trades looked better than others when you put them up against each other, but in all honesty, the picks are moving pretty quickly and we kind of focus more on what the opportunities were rather than sit around and analyze each one," Belichick told the Boston media. "A lot of it just depends on what's on the board and what you feel about what's up there."

There has been speculation that very few people are willing to trade with Belichick, and so his options were limited.

"There were some conversations earlier on and we followed up on it," Thompson said. "But this trade, just like any trade, you don't really make it, or we're uncomfortable making it in advance unless we have multiple players and we don't care who it is.

"We had one and if he was there we'd do the trade."

Secondary first: The selection of Hayward in the second round raised speculation that the Packers might be considering moving cornerback Charles Woodson to safety this season.

When the Packers decided to release starter Nick Collins for medical reasons, it left a huge void in their defensive backfield. Thompson chose a cornerback instead of a safety with his second pick of the night.

It's logical to think that the 35-year-old Woodson would be a candidate to move, especially given he has played there in specific schemes defensive coordinator Dom Capers has dreamed up and Charlie Peprah was ordinary there.

"Our experience with Charles is, Charles is a bright guy," Capers said. "It's not like it would be a radical move because of the way we've used him in the last three years, basically. We feel he can play any one of those positions. That's one of the things he brings to the table is the flexibility that he gives you . . . "

Inside slant: Forgotten in the rush of activity that has occurred this week is that another pass rusher was added earlier in the year.

Anthony Hargrove, an unrestricted free agent signed for minimum wage, is looking to re-establish himself in the league after being an effective rusher with New Orleans for two seasons and then flaming out with Seattle last year.

Hargrove, 28, is well-known for being all hustle all the time, and his backstory, which includes overcoming a substance abuse problem, makes him all the more hungry. He is just starting to integrate into the Packers' system and will be fighting second-round pick Jerel Worthy for playing time.

"He's a little bit smaller than some of the guys we have, but he's another guy that has a lot of juice to him," said defensive line coach Mike Trgovac, addressing the addition of Hargrove with the media for the first time. "He plays hard every down. It's just kind of in his DNA to go full speed every down.

"I think any time you can inject that into your room . . . and he's got some leadership, the guy's overcome a lot."

Trgovac said Mike Neal, who will be suspended for the first four games for violating the substance abuse policy, has been working out with the rest of the players. He said Neal appears to be completely healthy after battling a knee injury all of last season.

Belated tribute: When Collins and left tackle Chad Clifton were released this week, Thompson's only comments were through a statement distributed by the team.

He was asked about both players and choked up while giving his answer.

"They are the epitome of our franchise," he said.

Thompson noted that Clifton was a rock at the critical left tackle position, providing protection for the quarterback even through a plethora of injuries.

As for Collins, who was released because Thompson didn't feel comfortable letting him return to the field with fused vertebrae in his neck, the pride of having someone come so far in such a short period won't ever be lost on him.

"Both are good men, both are good family men," Thompson said. "They're what we're looking for. That's what we'd like these young men that we drafted today to be."